Motivational Quotes

Humor

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

- Conrad, Joseph

Best Quotes about Humor

There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.

Joubert, Joseph

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

Fredrich

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

Hemingway, Ernest

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

Socrates

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.

Horace

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

James Thurber

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Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

Dick Clark

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The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.

Knox, Ronald

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The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

Eco, Umberto

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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.

Procter, J. J.

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Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

Bill Nye

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A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

Maclaine, Shirley

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

Warhol, Andy

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One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Humor is, I think, the sublets and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers

Rosten, Leo

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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

Muir, Frank

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

Bruce, Lenny

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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Irving, Washington

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A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.

Strachey, Lionel

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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Humor is a whisper from the soul, imploring mind and body to relax, let go and be at peace again.

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If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.

Williamson, Nicol

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Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

Truman, Harry S

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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Where ever you find humor, you find pathos close by it side.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Humor -- the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.

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Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the healing-power gang. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

King, Florence

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A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Conrad, Joseph

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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people --that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

Thurber, James

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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

Mary Hirsch

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Edward De Bono

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The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

Kleiser, Grenville

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Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.

Smith, Alfred E.

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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor.

Maugham, W. Somerset